AgWeb Farm Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Last Acre Act would help expand high-speed internet access across eligible farmland, ranchland and farm sites. At least 15% of farms and ranches have no access to the internet today.

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Farmland Ranching Acre Farming 105

Caff

JUNE 16, 2022

Brisa Ranch went through their first 3rd Party Audit in 2020 because they participated in the USDA’s Farm to Food Box Program (a COVID-19 response program) and needed the certification to sell to the program. The post Food Safety & Wildfires Case Study: Brisa Ranch appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Ranching Food Crop Farming 52

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They grow a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, rye, wheat, sorghum, and peas; pasture-raise pigs for specialty meat company Niman Ranch; and care for chickens, sheep, ducks, geese, alpacas, and numerous cats—in addition to raising two young children and running a farm stay experience. We don’t have to invest in huge buildings.

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Farming Farming Ranching Pasture 118

Trimble Agriculture

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Worsham farms, growers and producers of over 1,500 acres of sweet corn, 1,200 acres of peanuts, and 2,500 acres of pecans—with trees over 100 years old—allowed us to document their journey and share the story of what it takes to be a resilient farmer in an industry where you risk it all to work the land you love.

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Acre Ranching Farming Farming 105

Food Tank

JANUARY 5, 2024

Eric Boor took over his great-grandfather’s nine-acre farm in southern Iowa four years ago. Eric and Mikala both knew that they could raise hogs outdoors, but it wasn’t until they started partnering with Niman Ranch that they could make it work financially and begin to grow their business. “I

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Ranching Farming Farming Acre 128

Food Tank

MAY 3, 2024

She since partnered with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the U.S. Niman Ranch provides the participants with a guaranteed market for their hogs in exchange for upholding high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Today, he’s a sixth-generation pig farmer partnering with Niman Ranch. Williams, his wife Hannah, and their toddler Lyle now live on Williams Family Farms, sustainably and humanely raising pigs and farming about 400 acres of cropland. The best thing about Niman Ranch is how transparent they are.

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Ranching Family Farming Farming Farming 105

RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. Today, Tim and Joanne manage WR Grazing in collaboration with Doug and other family members on 3000 acres of land.

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Ranching Cattle Crop Acre 52

DTN

MARCH 21, 2024

agriculture and ranching was released in February. Cover crop acres increased to 18 million total acres, a 17% increase, but when compared to total farmland, this represents only 6% of 300 million acres. million acres annually. The pinnacle report on the state of U.S. more than five years ago.

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Acre Biofuel Ranching Crop 103

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 20, 2024

Mickey Steward has worked hard to rehabilitate her ranch. You can’t buy a good ranch,” Steward jokes. You have to buy a ranch that, for whatever reason, has gotten rundown.” Steward runs Red Angus cattle on about 1,000 acres of land over the Crow Reservation in Montana, right at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains.

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Ranching Plowing Cattle Acre 75

UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Now let’s take a look at some of the economic costs and benefits of addressing erosion on farms and ranches. To determine the cost of erosion, I used the NRCS tolerable soil loss or “T” value for our farm of 5 tons per acre. Despite the complexity, 5 tons per acre per year is a reasonable estimate for the Midwestern U.S.

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Acre Fertilizer Crop Ranching 75

Real Agriculture

JUNE 1, 2023

Over a 50 year time period, the returns from grain farming are $508/acre higher than cow-calf production, according to the research modelling. Read More

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Acre Grain Ranching Crop 130

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“Driving the I-5 between LA and San Francisco, I was like, ‘Oh, this is what people think cattle ranching is.’” Carman didn’t intend to stay on the ranch on which she grew up. She witnessed how difficult it was for them to work the ranch alone. Carman uses the principles of regenerative soil management on the ranch.

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Cattle Ranching Supply Chain Forage 133

Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Surveying the aftermath of the Kula Upcountry Fire—one of three devastating wildfires that raged across Maui last month—Brendan Balthazar noticed a striking pattern emerge across his cattle ranch. Peppered throughout some 500 acres of charred pastureland, he found sizable patches of grass left unscathed by the blaze.

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Plantation Pasture Acre Ranching 107

Agwired

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

USDA officials release 2022 Census of Agriculture USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on Tuesday released results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture , which includes more than 6 million data points about America’s farms and ranches and the people who operate them down to the county level. ” There were 1.9

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Agriculture Agriculture Ranching Farmland 59

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

He and 100 caprine teammates can clear about an acre a day. “I Founded in 2020, Happy Goat farm sits on a 2,000-acre property in Mariposa County, near Yosemite National Park. That amounts to approximately 200 acres in addition to the 220 acres the goats take on each year back at the farm. Photo by Craig Kohlruss.

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Acre Farming Farming Compost 137

ATTRA

AUGUST 21, 2023

Texas A&M AgriLife Research received a donation of more than 900 acres of the George Webb Slaughter Ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, that will house agricultural, natural resources, and life sciences research conducted by scientists across the state and over a range of interconnected disciplines.

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Ranching Farming Farming Science 40

ATTRA

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It shows the resounding success of IRA spending inside CSP, illustrates tens of millions of acres of successful conservation efforts, and demonstrates a clear need for increased investment in CSP going forward,” said Jesse Womack, NSAC Policy Specialist.

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Ranching Acre Farming Farming 40

Agwired

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A project let by TH Cattle Company is quantifying the soil and biomass impacts of climate-smart ranching practices and rewarding livestock producers through premiums for added-value beef. Over 5,000 acres of ranchland are participating by implementing climate-smart grazing practices that will enable access to these markets.

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Ranching Greenhouse Marketing Acre 59

Food Tank

AUGUST 30, 2023

I just returned from one of my favorite events, the Niman Ranch Hog Farmer Appreciation Celebration in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Food Tank is honored to co-host an Educational Summit. I have been fortunate to call Niman Ranch Founding Hog Farmer Paul Willis a friend for many years, and I still get emotional at this event.

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Food Ranching Farming Farming 52

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 1, 2024

acre Niwot Homestead in a suburban yard that belongs to a family she found through Nextdoor. “We She moved on to manage a two-acre cut flower parcel at a large market farm for a couple of years. He steadily grew his business and leased 800 private mountainous acres to graze dry cattle that don’t produce milk.

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Real Estate Farming Farming Acre 116

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Furthermore, new and beginning producers , defined as farmers and ranchers who have operated a farm or ranch for not more than 10 consecutive years, increased in both the number of producers and the share of all producers. million farms and ranches across the U.S. – farms and ranches produced $543.1 million acres to 196.5

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Agriculture Agriculture Acre Farming 111

ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), this tool is intended for initial farm and/or ranch conservation planning purposes and is now available in the contiguous United States. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S. tonnes per year, not zero.

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Greenhouse Processing Ranching Acre 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2024

CSP remains the largest conservation initiative in the US, with 69 million cumulative acres enrolled in the program in FY2023 (see Figure 1). Despite this strong foundation, this figure is actually a drop in cumulative acres of nearly 7 million acres during this farm bill cycle. million new acres enrolled in FY2023, 3.28

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Acre Farming Farming Agriculture 98

Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

In 2019, they connected with Niman Ranch, which is a network of more than 600 small and mid-size farmers and ranchers across the United States. Niman Ranch offers a guaranteed market for its farmers’ and ranchers’ products in exchange for a high standard of practices. Right now, Steven and Alaina both work off-farm jobs.

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Farming Farming Ranching Farmland 76

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

The ATF predicts that more than 300 million acres of farmland and ranch land could change ownership within the next two decades, with some of it transitioning out of agriculture use permanently. million acres of farmland and ranchland through conservation easements. But real estate developers can afford it.

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Farmland Acre Real Estate Ranching 103

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

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Livestock Acre Cattle Ranching 145

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tony Prendergast’s XK Bar Ranch sits slightly south of Crawford, Colorado, near the Smith Fork of the North Fork of the Gunnison River on the southern edge of the agriculturally rich North Fork Valley. We bought the ranch by forming a land cooperative with three other families and collaborating on different uses of the land,” he said.

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Ranching Livestock Acre Ecology 86

ATTRA

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Noble Research Institute says the funding will expedite the expansion of integral water and fencing infrastructure across 13,500 acres of Noble ranches and facilitate multispecies adaptive grazing, allowing for more rapid improvement in soil health.

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Farm Credit of Southern Colorado

OCTOBER 23, 2024

PRF insurance is available for haying and grazing, and you can insure part or all your acres. By investing in this insurance, you safeguard your financial health and ensure your ranch remains productive, even when nature doesn’t cooperate. Contact your local insurance agent today to learn how PRF insurance can benefit your ranch.

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Livestock Forage Ranching Pasture 52

Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As such, strictly grass-fed or grass-finished operations tend to be modest in scale, says Cheung, with the majority of ranches in the U.S.

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Pasture Ranching Supply Chain Cattle 117

AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Smokehouse Creek Fire that started in Hutchinson County has burned a total of 1,075,000 acres across Texas and Oklahoma and is 3% contained. Read More → The post Largest wildfire in Texas history continues appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Acre Ranching Farming Farming 122

AgriLife Today

MARCH 5, 2024

million acres of ranchland and pastures blackened by wildfires across the Texas Panhandle. AgriLife Extension helps Texas Panhandle ranchers identify nutritional needs of displaced livestock Truckloads of hay are rolling in from across Texas and beyond, bringing much-needed feed for cattle in the wake of more than 1.2 According to U.S.

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Cattle Pasture Livestock Acre 116

Real Agriculture

MAY 9, 2024

Last month, the Thrall family announced it had reached an agreement to protect the over 54,000 acres of native grasslands in southern Alberta that make up the historic McIntyre Ranch through a conservation easement with the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Ducks Unlimited. Read More

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Acre Ranching Cattle Livestock 290

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

In an email to High Country News , Roy Smith, a Sonoma County farmer who runs a seven-acre hay operation, wrote that the debate lacks nuance: “Both sides argue a truth, and both sides permit a falsehood,” he said. In a country dominated by large-scale farming operations comprising thousands of acres of monocrops, Sonoma County is an outlier.

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Livestock Acre Poultry Farming 61

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. In 2002, Mardesen started selling his pork to Niman Ranch, a network of independent family farmers that raise livestock without antibiotics or added hormones.

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Cattle Food Acre Ranching 122

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch. For livestock farmer and Land to Market certified producer Reuben Hendricks of Cabriejo Ranch , good ecology is good for business. At his ranch, they perform short-term monitoring of data points such as species diversity and the amount of bare soil. Photography courtesy of Cabriejo Ranch.

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